

Weakening of communist movements and increase in criticism of Marxism.Attenuation of the socio-economy of North Korea, but the internal relations between the two Koreas improve positively.Suppression of the Chinese democracy movement and the rise of China's anti-Western sentiments.Emigration of Soviet and Eastern Bloc Jews to Israel.Soviet army failed in Soviet-Afghan War and fall of the Soviet-backed regime in Afghanistan after that.Expansion of Western media and Internet in former Socialist and Communist countries.The spread of Western culture, capitalism to previously sealed-off Communist countries, including Russia and Eastern Europe.Skepticism about Communism all over the world associated with decreasing support for various Communist and left-wing parties, especially in Europe and Asia, the collapse of Communist-dominated governments in Afghanistan, Angola, Benin, Congo-Brazzaville, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Somalia and South Yemen.Breakup of Yugoslavia and start of the Yugoslav Wars.The rise of populism and neutral forces.Many Communists recast themselves into adherents of the two models of social democracy and democratic socialism.Establishment of a non- Communist government in Cambodia.Fall of old system of economy in the other Communist countries, transition from a state-run economic model to a private one in the former Eastern Bloc countries dismantling of the command economies and privatization of state-owned enterprise the spread of capitalist and free-market economy system after economic crises in former Communist countries.Transfer of power to multi-party governments in Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Mongolia and Albania.Formation of the Russian Federation and the independence of 15 states from the former Soviet Union.Dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, Comecon and Eastern Bloc.Socio-economic reforms in China, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam.Collapse of the one-party state regimes democratic centralism, planned economy.End of the Soviet Union as a superpower and its dissolution on 26 December 1991.Fall of most of the Marxist-Leninist states
